Aubrey Beardsley Quotes
I think the title page I drew for Salomé was after all 'impossible'. You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I love to fly so much.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
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My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.
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The American system of management, in my opinion, also relies too much on outsiders to help make business decisions., and this is because of the insecurity that American decision makers feel in their jobs, as compared with most top Japanese corporate executives.
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
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I think the title page I drew for Salomé was after all 'impossible'. You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows.
